Recognized as an outstanding lecturer, Professor Harl has received numerous teaching awards at Tulane, including the coveted Sheldon H. Harl is Professor of Classical and Byzantine History at Tulane University in New Orleans, where he teaches courses in Greek, Roman, Byzantine, and Crusader history. We have been able to discover little of Bradford's personal life. In his long career as a map publisher Bradford worked with William Davis Ticknor of Boston, Freeman Hunt of New York, Charles De Silver of Philadelphia, John Hinton, George Washington Boynton, and others. Bradford's cartographic work is significant as among the first to record Texas as an independent nation. Afterwards Bradford revised and expanded this work into his own important contributions to American cartography, the 1838 An Illustrated Atlas Geographical, Statistical and Historical of the United States and Adjacent Countries. Bradford's first major cartographic work was his revision and subsequent republishing of an important French geography by Adrian Balbi, Abrege de Geographie published in America as Atlas Designed to Illustrate the Abridgment of Universal Geography, Modern and Ancient. Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1802 - 1887) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, where he worked as an assistant editor for the Encyclopedia Americana. Boynton of Boston, who also engraved most of the maps for Bradford's later publication. The maps from this atlas are an important addition to any collection focusing on early American cartography and Republic of Texas cartography.Īll maps in this atlas, though not specifically noted as such, were most likely engraved by G. A fourth edition appeared later, possibly 1837, and included an updated and revised map of Texas that replaces the old Mexican land grants with new inchoate counties. A third edition was issued in 1836, also by American Stationers (though still dated 1835), and contained an unaltered Republic of Texas map with only a single page of descriptive text. The second official edition, published in the same year by the American Stationers Company, was the first to contain the Republic of Texas map, which is based on Austin's map, with two pages of descriptive text. Ticktor and did not contain the iconic Republic of Texas map (although we have in fact seen Ticktor examples with a Texas map, suggesting, against conventional wisdom, that there may have been two Ticktor editions). The first edition was published by William D. Among other things, Bradford focused his atlas on the Americas and abandoned the classical decoration common in European atlases in favor of a more informational and inherently American approach.īradford published this atlas in several editions and with various partners. Fourth and finally, Bradford's atlas in some instances broke the Euro-centric mold regarding atlas production. Third, this atlas was the first to contain a separate and specific map showing the Republic of Texas. Second, it was published in Boston and influenced the city's rise as a publishing center later in the 19th century (at the time most publishing in the United States was restricted to New York and Philadelphia). First, it was one of the first American atlases to follow an encyclopedic format, offering readers extensive geographical and statistical tables to supplement the maps themselves. Bradford's atlas, published in 1835 was an important work on many levels. Bradford's 1835 Comprehensive Atlas Geographical, Historical and Commercial. Notes cities, rivers, mountains and other topographical features. This region saw the development of currency, the conquest of Troy, as well as the construction of three of the Ancient World's seven Wonders. These include Lydia, Lycia, Caria, Mysia, Pisidia, Phrygia, Cappadocia, Bithynia, Pontus and others. The map shows the ancient Kingdoms of Asia Minor, many of which were Greek colonies or heavily influenced by Ancient Greek culture. It includes the whole or part of the modern day countries of Italy, Greece, Albania, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Egypt, Libya, Israel and Lebanon. It covers from Italy east to Syria and from Bulgaria south to Libya. This is a scarce 1835 map of Asia Minor or what is today Turkey and its adjacent countries. Minnesota - North Dakota - South Dakota.Massachusetts - Connecticut - Rhode Island.
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